Fiction-Stories

Cut & Thirst: A Short Story

Three friends get together to support their college friend Fern suffering from a seemingly incurable cancer. The friends, all writers, want to do all they can to support her, also a writer. Though Fern was the most financially successful among the group, they feel that certain negative comments from critics have shortchanged her literary career. As a parting present, they want to serve vindictive justice to her critics as a gift for Fern. What form…

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Biography-Memoir Society

Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness

For four years, Coates served as a federal prosecutor for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in the District of Columbia. This gave her an up-front view on social ills plaguing America. As the title reveals, she, herself black, wrestles at length in this book with the dynamics of race and justice in the legal system. Her analysis does not provide easy answers. Someone surely is not guilty just because he/she is black, but neither…

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